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NEW DELHI: A special court today said it would consider the supplementary final report filed by CBI in a coal scam case only after some finality is arrived on the issue of according sanction to prosecute government servants by the competent authority. The court observed that certain issues in this respect were involved in a number of other coal blocks allocation scam cases where decision of competent authority on according of sanction to try public servants was "still awaited".

KOCHI: A special court here on Thursday ruled 13 people guilty in a 2010 attack on a professor and chopping of his right hand for allegedly hurting religious sentiments by making an irreverent reference to Prophet Mohammed in a question paper he had prepared. The court acquitted 18 accused. Among 37 people charge-sheeted, five are still to be arrested, while one was recently held. The court will pronounce the sentence on May 5. The right hand of TJ Joseph, who taught Malayalam at Thodupuza's Newman College, was chopped off on July 4, 2010 when he was returning from church.

NEW DELHI: In a major blow to fight against black money , a special authority established to try money laundering cases bearing revenue value of crores of rupees has been rendered vacant as the lone member of the three-member body resigned today. The Adjudicating Authority (AA) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) is designated to function as the first appellate authority against attachment of assets made by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) under stringent money laundering laws.

HYDERABAD: A local court today rejected as non-maintainable the appeals filed by Satyam scam kingpin B Ramalinga Raju and others challenging a special court's verdict that found him and nine others guilty in the multi-crore rupee accounting fraud in erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Ltd (SCSL). The appeals were filed by Raju and others last week in the court of metropolitan sessions judge (MSJ) here requesting setting aside of the special court's judgement and also sought bail.

HYDERABAD: A Metropolitan Sessions Court here today reserved its order till April 20 on an appeal filed by B Ramalinga Raju and others challenging a special court's verdict which found them guilty in the multi-crore rupee accounting fraud in erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Raju, along with seven others, had filed the appeal in the Metropolitan Sessions Court on April 13 seeking to set aside the special court's (trial court's)...

NEW DELHI: The final arguments in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case, in which ex-Telecom Minister A Raja , DMK MP Kanimozhi and others including some top corporate executives are facing trial, are likely to commence tomorrow before a special court here. Special CBI Judge OP Saini , who is exclusively dealing with all the 2G scam related cases, had on March 24 fixed the matter for tomorrow for commencement of final arguments after concluding recording of evidence.

HYDERABAD: Satyam scam kingpin B Ramalinga Raju moved an appeal in a sessions court here today challenging a special court's verdict which found him and nine others guilty in the multi-crore rupee accounting fraud in the erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Ltd (SCSL). Raju, along with seven others, filed the appeal in the Metropolitan Sessions Court and the matter has been posted for for hearing on April 15 about its maintainability. "The judgement (of the special court)

MUMBAI: Tech Mahindra has received an interim order stating that the hearing to frame charges against it may take place. This was after the Enforcement Directorate appealed an earlier order quashing the prosecution of Satyam Computer Services , which is now part of Tech Mahindra. Tech Mahindra became a party to the prosecution initiated against Satyam and others by the Enforcement Directorate, when it bought the company in a government-backed merger . The interim order states that the hearing to frame charges may take place against Satyam, Tech Mahindra said in a filing to the BSE. If the company was discharged, the interim order would stand vacated.

NEW DELHI: Chartered accountants' apex body ICAI today said the involvement of six of its members in the Satyam scam was a "matter of aberration" and it has got robust standards in place. Completing a long-drawn legal process, a special court in Hyderabad today convicted B Ramalinga Raju, chief of erstwhile Satyam Computer Services, and nine others in the Rs 7,000 crore fraud that came to light in January 2009. In the wake of the scam, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)

HYDERABAD: A special court here trying the multi-crore accounting fraud in erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Ltd (SCSL) will pronounce its judgement in the CBI- probed case tomorrow. During the last hearing on March 9, Special Judge BVLN Chakravarthi said, "On April 9, the judgement will be pronounced. I am making it very clear. April 9 will be the final date for the verdict. No question of further adjournments. Court will not wait. " Touted as the country's biggest accounting fraud, the scam had come to light on January 7, 2009, after the firm's founder and then Chairman B Ramalinga Raju allegedly confessed to manipulating his company's account books and inflating profits over many years to the tune of crores of rupees.